From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 8 0:51: 0 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4636437B401 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:50:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01.attbi.com [204.127.202.61]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49F5843ED1 for ; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 00:50:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@goepp.com) Received: from dpg (h002078d5d728.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.62.123.170]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with SMTP id <20030108085052001001s2lle>; Wed, 8 Jan 2003 08:50:52 +0000 Reply-To: From: "Daniel Goepp" To: Subject: RE: Postfix vs. Sendmail Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 03:50:23 -0500 Message-ID: <000701c2b6f2$fb51d420$6432a8c0@dpg> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20030108072912.GA38197@grimoire.chen.org.nz> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:26:53PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > on 1/6/03 10:59 PM, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:29:15PM -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > > > > [...] > >> The problem came up when my VPS provider did a system upgrade. This process > >> left everything I had intact except I lost my sendmail soft link which had > >> pointed to the sendmail replacement provided by qmail. The link was > >> replaced by the sendmail binary with the result that I suddently had > >> sendmail running again beside qmail. > > > > The correct thing to do is to leave the sendmail binary alone and > > tweak /etc/mail/mailer.conf so that the sendmail replacement is > > invoked instead of the base-system's sendmail. > > Yes, I actually corrected mailer.conf when the problem occurred, but I have > heard that some software will try to use /usr/sbin/sendmail explicitly > ignoring mailer.conf. /usr/sbin/sendmail is a symbolic link to /usr/sbin/mailwrapper. ie invoking /usr/sbin/sendmail will consult /etc/mail/mailer.conf. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A person should be able to do a small bit of everything, specialisation is for insects" This is exactly my point, we are running our selves in legacy circles to comply with the original application. And even worse, we are continuing to conform for how sendmail wants thing, and still calling it sendmail. So, for example, if you install postfix...It replaces the sendmail executable also. So, sendmail (mailwrapper version), points to sendmail (postfix replacement), which finally points to the postfix delivery app. Seems a bit much... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message